Most of the Ministry of Justice and the former Department for Constitutional Affairs public consultations conducted in the last five years were covered by departmental costs as an integral part of the policy-making process. No breakdown exists for those costs and to provide one would incur disproportionate cost. However, the following table shows where activity over and above a standard consultation has been carried out and related cost details are available because the consultation was therefore funded by a different method.
Name of consultation Cost (£) 2006 consultations Openness in the Family Courts -Confidence and Confidentiality 28,000 Legal Aid: a sustainable future (joint consultation with Legal Services Commission) 123,500 2007 consultations Openness in the Family Courts - a new approach 14,000 Judicial Appointments: the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary 15,000 War-making powers and international treaties 14,000 NOMS Strategic Plan for Reducing Reoffending 75,000 NOMS Believing we can - engagement with the faith based sector to support work to reduce reoffending 10,000 NOMS Third Sector Strategy 20,000 2— MOJ Third Sector Strategy 35,500 OCJR Improving the criminal justice process for young witnesses 2,000 2008 Consultations NOMS Best Value in Probation 39,500 Local Authority Charges for Property Search Services (joint consultation with Communities and Local Government) 12,000 Titan Prisons £1,210 Election Day - Weekend Voting 6,153.95 Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide: Proposal for reform of the Law 10,254 Rules for Mandatory Polygraph Tests for Sex Offenders £300 Reducing Re-offending in London 13,995.26 Reviewing the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Forms Supervision and Fees 6,300 1 Matched by Legal Services Commission. 2 Plus £18,000 for joint consultation events for NOMS Believing We Can and NOMS Third Sector Strategy. 3 On 19 May 2008 for the answer to PQ 205828, a figure of £12,000 was given. This was an estimate of likely costs. This figure was then confirmed as £9,500 in time for publication in the answer to PQ 259572 on 3 March 2009.